A new secure zone is to be set up in Calais to protect lorries from migrants trying to climb on board to enter Britain illegally, the home secretary has announced.
Theresa May told MPs the move came after authorities at the French port had intercepted more than 8,000 attempts by migrants to enter Britain illegally in the last three weeks.
She said the secure zone for freight vehicles queueing to cross the Channel would provide protection for the equivalent of a 2.5-mile queue of lorries on the open approach roads, where they have been targeted by criminal gangs.
The move follows reports that three more people were injured on Tuesday when they tried to cross the Channel illegally, and that an Eritrean refugee had died last week when he tried to board a freight train.
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